English
Etymology
Named for the original arrangement in typesetting, where the drawer or case containing capital letters would traditionally be located above the one containing small letters.[1]
Noun
upper case (uncountable)
- The capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....
- Synonyms: majuscule, u/c (initialism)
- Antonyms: lower case, minuscule
- Coordinate term: mixed case
Translations
- Catalan: majúscules (ca) f pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大寫 / 大写 (zh) (dàxiě), 大寫字母 / 大写字母 (zh) (dàxiě zìmǔ)
- Danish: store bogstaver n pl
- Esperanto: majusklaro (collective), majuskloj
- Finnish: versaali (fi), suuraakkoset pl, isot kirjaimet pl
- French: majuscules (fr) f pl, haut-de-casse (fr) m pl
- German: Großbuchstaben (de) m pl, Großschreibung (de) f, Majuskeln (de) f pl, Versalien (de) pl, Versalbuchstaben m pl, Kapitalbuchstaben m pl
- Greek: κεφαλαία (el) n pl (kefalaía)
- Icelandic: stórir stafir m pl
- Irish: cás uachtair m
- Italian: maiuscoli m pl, lettere maiuscole f pl, caratteri maiuscoli m pl
- Japanese: 大文字 (ja) (おおもじ, ōmoji)
- Korean: 대문자 (ko) (daemunja)
- Latvian: lielie burti m pl
- Maori: pūmatua
- Polish: wersaliki m pl, majuskuły f pl, wielkie litery f pl
- Portuguese: maiúsculas f pl, caixas-altas f pl
- Romanian: litere mari (ro) f pl, majuscule f pl
- Russian: прописны́е бу́квы f pl (propisnýje búkvy), загла́вные бу́квы f pl (zaglávnyje búkvy), ве́рхний реги́стр m (vérxnij regístr) (computing)
- Spanish: mayúsculas (es) f pl
- Swedish: versaler (sv) c pl, stora bokstäver c pl
|
References
Further reading
Letter case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams